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Planning Hart Local Plan: Housing Target and Sites Out 19 October Food hygiene Hart Food Hygiene Ratings: All 12 Scored 5 in September Yateley Yateley Named Hampshire Village of the Year, Hook Runner-Up

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All Fleet events
  1. On now to 9 Oct Hartley Wintney Literary Festival Victoria Hall and venues across Hartley Wintney
  2. Tue 6 Oct Charlie Walker, On Thin Ice 6pm · Hartley Wintney Golf Club · From £10
  3. Wed 7 Oct Hart climate change engagement event 6pm · Hart District Council Civic Offices · Free
  4. Wed 7 Oct Mark Foster, My Double Life 7pm · Victoria Hall · From £10
  5. Fri 9 Oct Literary afternoon tea with Miranda Malins 2pm · Victoria Hall · From £20

Latest news

Farnborough Alex Crean, 22, Trains Games Coders at Farnborough College Alex Crean is 22 and teaches computing and game development at Farnborough College of Technology. He and two colleagues explain what pulled them into FE. · 5 min read Crime Calthorpe Park E-Scooter Crash: Fleet Boy, 14, Arrested A 14-year-old from Fleet was arrested on 25 September over the June e-scooter crash in Calthorpe Park that left a girl, four, with a serious head injury. · 3 min read Events What's On in Fleet: a Book Festival, a Pumpkin Patch, Then the Fireworks Fleet's diary to 14 November: Fleet and Yateley fireworks on 7 November, West Green House's pumpkin patch from 24 October and a Hartley Wintney book festival. · 11 min read Parking Ancells Farm Car Park: 4-Hour Limit and ANPR Cameras Start Free parking at Ancells Farm, Fleet is capped at four hours from the end of September, with no overnight stays. How to avoid a charge and how to appeal one. · 4 min read Local Info Fleet Roadworks This Week: Church Road and Crondall Shut Church Road in Fleet stays shut to about 4 December and Crondall closes street by street to 8 November. Fleet Road shuts for the 10K on Sunday 25 October. · 22 min read Schools Church Crookham Junior School: 12 Autism Places Planned Hampshire plans a 12-place autism base at Church Crookham Junior School from 2027/28. Anyone can comment until 23 October; the cost is set in January. · 4 min read Schools Fleet school term dates 2026/27: half term 26 October Hampshire's half term is 26 to 30 October 2026, but Robert May's stays shut to 6 November and Lord Wandsworth breaks on the 16th. Six local calendars compared. · 6 min read Half Term Fleet October half term 2026: 26 to 30 October Half term in Fleet and Hook is 26 to 30 October 2026. West Green House opens a pumpkin patch, Hart runs pumpkin carving, and Hartley Wintney shows a free film. · 5 min read Bins Fleet Christmas bin collections: 2025 took three weeks Hart moved every bin day over Christmas 2025 and was back to normal on 19 January. The 2026 table is due in December; here is last year's, plus tree points. · 5 min read Trains Fleet Christmas trains: none on 25 December 2026 No trains from Fleet, Winchfield or Hook on Christmas Day, and few on the 26th. SWR's 2026 plan is due from October; last year Waterloo shut for two days. · 4 min read Christmas West Green House Christmas: light trail from 28 Nov West Green House's Once Upon a Time light trail runs 28 November to 30 December 2026: adults £22 to £25, children £18 to £21, families £68 to £79, parking £4. · 4 min read Hook Hook 415 Homes: County Highways Lodges Holding Objection Hampshire's highway engineers want reasons for refusal if Hart decides the 415-home Owens Farm scheme now. The register holds 1,040 objections. · 11 min read
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The council here is called Hart, after the river, and the stag on its logo is a pun on the name. Nobody says they live in Hart. They say Fleet, which is the only town of any size and where the council’s offices are, or Hook, Odiham, Hartley Wintney, Yateley or Blackwater.

Fleet & Hook News covers the district on that basis. Hart District Council decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing across all of it, and publishes the evidence in registers few people ever open. We open them and write down what they say, with a link to the document every time, and we keep the practical pages right for the days you just want an answer.

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  • Fleet house prices: £486,882 on the latest Land Registry figures, the highest average of any district in Hampshire.
  • Trains to London: Waterloo in 42 minutes from Fleet, what a season ticket costs, and the last train home.
  • Roadworks and parking: Reading Road South is shut south-eastbound and Church Road closes on 17 August for up to 109 days.
  • Things to do: Fleet Pond, Edenbrook, Odiham Castle and the canal, all free, with the parking details.
  • Planning: an outline application for up to 2,160 homes at Murrell Green, in a district with no five-year housing land supply.

The rest of the site is arranged as News, Local Info and What’s On. Every figure carries a link to the document behind it.